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Showing 1 to 20 of 213 for “"Basing"”.
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The Politics of Foreign Military Basing
… I combine descriptive case studies relating the basing postures of five major powers and to their respective grand strategies with a quantitative analysis of the correlates of the US military basing network. To answer the second, I test the role of host-nation security conditions on US military …
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On basing private information retrieval on NP-hardness
The possibility of basing the security of cryptographic objects on the (minimal) assumption that NP ... BPP is at the very heart of complexity-theoretic cryptography. Most known results along these lines are negative, showing that assuming widely believed complexity-theoretic conjectures, there are …
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Analysis of Customers’ Satisfaction With Banking Services: A Case Of Standard Chartered Bank
… to assess the level of customer satisfaction basing on customers intention to remain as clients; to examine the level of customer satisfaction basing on customers intention to recommend the service of the Standard Chartered Bank to third parties; and to measure the overall level of customer …
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Price Dynamics and Spatial Market Structure for Three U.S. Southern Pine Timber Products
… pricing schemes such as collusive basing point pricing. In this dissertation, we model the economic impacts of oligopsony in the procurement of timber in the presence of significant intra-regional transportation costs and test it on three forest products (Pine Saw Timber (PST), Pine …
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Mind the Gap: The Failure of the Central Intelligence Agency to Support U.S. National Interests
… estimates were biased largely by mirror-imaging, basing assumptions on an ethnocentric view of what the U.S. would be doing in the same situation. It also suggests an overlearning of lessons when estimates are found to be wrong, similar to fighting the last war. Lack of human intelligence …
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Modeling Aerial Refueling Operations
… on computer models to help it make tanker basing decisions, plan tanker sorties, schedule aircraft, develop new organizational doctrines, and influence policy. We have worked on three projects that have helped AMC improve its modeling and decision making capabilities. <bold>Optimal Flight …
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On physical processes occurring in the hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic astrophysical and laboratory flows
… opportunity to obtain the numerical solutions. Basing on our model we quantitatively confirmed various statements about particular features and properties of the boundary layer scattered in the literature. In section III we formulate our model (Tsikarishvili, Rogava & Tsiklauri, 1995) for …
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Compilation of Register Transfer Language Descriptions Into Silicon
… constraints. This goal is achieved by basing the system on an innovative design methodology, the most important features of which are structured design (hierarchy and regularity), intracell wiring strategy, algorithmically defined cells, and efficient handling of Register Transfer (RT) …
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Assessment of the Challenges Behind the Ineffective Customs Clearance of Goods at Sea Port
… of demurrage costs and lack of essential drugs. Basing on the fact that the main objective of each organization is cost reduction and profit maximization, the situation at MSD contravened this fact, the researcher ought to assess the existing challenges in clearing process leading to the …
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Looking For Leverage: Strategic Resources, Contentious Bargaining, and US-African Security Cooperation
… focuses on intelligence liaisons, military basing agreements, and coordinated military interventions as strategic resources that Ethiopia, Zaire (now D.R.C.), and Uganda have mobilized in intra-alliance bargaining with the US.</p> <p>The central puzzle of this work coheres around two …
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A Pintura de retratos no século XIX: Victor Meirelles
… and its relationship with social environement, basing on the portraits painted by Victor Meirelles. The portrqiture, in Brasil, began in the seventeenth century, following portuguese models. The French Artistic Mission of 18 16 brought a new model for the gender. The most significative portraits …
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An investigation of Local Government Authorities employees’ attitudes towards retirement
… and level of income categories (p< 0.1) Basing on these findings, it was concluded the overall attitude of local government authority employees is generally positive, but vary with such socio-demographic variables. Basing on the results of this study, there is a need to develop coherent …
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A escola como ambiente para relações de alteridade
… to live together with the differences by basing on the reflexion developed about the Four Pillars of Education, by Jacques Delors. By the same perspective of trying to comprehend the complex phenomenon of living together with the different persons, we try to understand the ethics of care, …
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A Study of Perspectives of Educators Across Clinical and Scholarly/scientific Work Settings
… Terming the problem a "communication gap" and basing the study on theory from Freidson (1970) and Mead (1938), hypotheses were formulated which predicted that individuals who worked in scholarly/scientific work settings would use a "truth-seeking" perspective as a mode of conceiving classroom …
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Analysis study of Chinese SMEs financing challenges
… different financing sources for SMEs in China. Basing on the understanding of China's financial landscape, I described and summarized the financing challenges that are faced by Chinese SMEs and analyzed both the fundamental and temporary causes behind the challenges. In the end, I proposed a …
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Egomotion estimation using binocular spatiotemporal oriented energy
… spatiotemporal oriented energy distributions. Basing the estimation on oriented energy measurements makes it possible to recover egomotion without the need to establish temporal correspondences or convert disparity into 3D world coordinates. There sulting algorithm has been realized in software …
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Peacekeeper: a Case Study of Strategic Debate
… Reagan Administrations for both ICBMs and their basing mode. The examination of these decisions illuminate the range of options for U.S. nuclear deployments and the nuclear strategy of the United States. This examination reveals that U.S. strategy and planning policies, and consequently have …
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Learning Outside the Box: Designing Social Learning Spaces
… Design' methodology to develop the principles, basing this enquiry on two case studies: (i) a pilot study analysing an existing social learning space; the Simon Williams Undergraduate Centre, and (ii) an ongoing masterplanning project at Oxford Brookes University's Gipsy Lane campus, Space to …
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Fine-grained complexity meets communication complexity
… the running time of fundamental problems in P. Basing on several important conjectures such as Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis (SETH), All-Pair Shortest Path Conjecture, and the 3-Sum Conjecture, tight conditional lower bounds are proved for numerous exact problems from all fields of computer …
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